Berlin, Nov 19 (IANS) Germany has decided to extend its military mission in Afghanistan for another year. The current mandate will expire Dec 13.
Germany has deployed over 4,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, third largest foreign troops contingent after the US and Britain, in the central Asian country.
Germany wants to tell its partners that it is [...]
Berlin, Nov 16 (DPA) German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle called Sunday for preliminary work over the next four years towards laying down a plan to withdraw German troops from Afghanistan.
Speaking on ZDF television, he said, ‘In the life of this parliament, we have to get sufficiently far with the concept of self-sustained security that a [...]
London, Nov 12 (DPA) A man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after being convicted of murdering a pregnant Egyptian woman in a German courtroom last July.
The court ruled earlier Wednesday that Aleksandr Wiens, a German of Russian origin, was motivated by hatred of foreigners when he stabbed 31-year-old Marwa el-Shirbini to death in [...]
Berlin, Oct 27 (DPA) The new German coalition deal was signed Monday, as the incoming centre-right leaders formally approved the government charter earlier approved by their parties.
Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democrats (CDU), Free Democrat (FDP) leader Guido Westerwelle and Horst Seehofer of the CDU’s Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) sister party signed the [...]
